Eyeup’s White Label service A valuable white label service that allows you to offer your client a service above and beyond your current permissions. Eyeup Aerial Solutions maintains a unique position amongst professional drone operators. A thriving training and consultancy offering and full-time job mean that Eyeup’s owner, Graham Degg, can’t commit to flying on…
Find Your Way Around Your Operations Manual The end of 2020 brought more than another lockdown. It brought the biggest raft of legislative changes we’ve ever seen in the industry. These will reverberate for years to come…but right now you don’t care. You just want to update your Ops Manual. You can do this…
Accountable managers Accountable Managers are common in aviation and it is a very responsible position. If you hold a permission from the CAA, (commonly referred to as a PfCO), or a GVC (General VLOS Certificate), you’ll know all about the role of the Accountable Manager right?. That’s because every Operations Manual is signed by the…
Renewal Time It’s time to refresh myself at Eyeup Towers. My standard PfCO renewal is up on 6th January 2021. So what? Well, counting back 90 days from that date takes me to 8th October 2020, which is the earliest I can apply for renewal. So I’m planning to get the operations manual…
Eyeup Aerial Solutions – COVID-19 Secure in 2020 When the lockdown started in March, many businesses and operators mis-understood the new regulations. They shut up shop and stopped providing services to their clients. In many cases this may not have mattered as the clients themselves were hunkering down and coming to terms with the new…
The CAA has today released a CAP document to provide guidance to operators seeking to support the emergency services during the COVID-19 outbreak and who require the ability to take part in Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BLVOS) operations. The CAA recently released ORS4 1361, rapidly retracted and replaced with ORS4 1375. These general exemptions…
Eyeup Aerial Solutions were out on Thursday evening showing our support for the NHS. Despite being incredibly busy we were able to string together a “ring of blue”, the NHS colour, and fly it above Ashtead. The neighbouring community was been alerted in advance to the presence of the drone and had even provided some…
Operators of SUA’s are currently split on the subject of COVID-19 in a way that I didn’t think I would see again after the Brexit debate! To work or not to work – that is the question. Proponents of the stay at home no matter what point to the words “essential” and “absolutely…
Originally posted 3rd April 2020 Updated 13th April 2020 Updated 5th June 2020 Update 5th June 2020 Today sees the announcement of a further delay predicted in this blog. The EU UAS Implementing Regulation has now been officially pushed back to the 31st December 2020. That’s the same day that the UK Government has…
A first-hand look at the CAA’s PfCO Audit Process When the CAA invited Eyeup Aerial Solutions to road-test their latest process, I have to say I was flattered. After all, this reflects a high level of trust in what is only a small, part-time operation typical of many others. However, when I found out that…